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We’re back from NOLA, where I presented at the 2025 Popular Culture Assocation Conference. I didn’t care for the French Quarter (too many tourists and addicts) but I did note a few things, that can be seen in my photos.

• We made much use of the 12 and 57 tram and bus lines, respectively.
• The RTA public transit ferry ride to Algiers Point was a nice and inexpensive way to float on the Mississippi.
• Stores were more casual about dogs than those in Boston; the buses were okay and the trams more strict—even when we had Nixie in a bag, as permitted by policy.
• Folks there like their floats! Weekend nights are lit by open air buses and floats full of women drinking and partying (in Ward 7 at least).
• City Park is not a nice walking-about park; rather, it’s a bunch of athletic fields.
• Audubon Park is a lovely place to walk about (designed by an Olmsted).
• The Garden District is beautiful.
• I enjoyed Oak St. neighborhood, in Ward 14.
• Breads on Oak is one of the best vegan bakeries I’ve ever been to.